Poverty rate
Pandemic lets four million Filipinos sink intro poverty
Nearly four million people in the Philippines fell into poverty in the first half of 2021 due to lockdown measures induced by the Covid-19...
In Thailand, 15 million or over a fifth of the population now need state welfare
The number of people in Thailand who need state welfare is expected to increase to 15 million next year from the current level of...
Coup and Covid: Recipe for disaster in Myanmar as poverty surges
As much as half of Myanmar’s population of a total of nearly 55 million could be living...
Poverty on the rise in Thailand as coronavirus, strong baht batters economy
Thailand is facing rising urban poverty
Around 1.5 million Thais are estimated to have fallen below the poverty...
Sabah remains poorest state in Malaysia
Sabah has a poverty rate of 19.5 per cent, the highest in Malaysia. Pictured: The famous fish roundabout with the Marlin...
Cambodia facing drastic rise in poverty amid pandemic
Slum at the outskirts of Phnom Penh © Arno Maierbrugger
The poverty rate in Cambodia is expected to...
Malaysia adjusts poverty line income: 400,000 households considered poor
Malaysia more than doubled its national poverty line income from 980 ringgit ($230) to 2,208 ringgit ($518)...
Myanmar’s growth to contract, poverty rate going up again: World Bank
Myanmar could expect its economy to contract by as much as 2.5 per cent in the country’s...
Thailand’s poverty rate on the rise, accelerated by virus crisis
People queue up for free food handouts from a temple in Bangkok's Don Mueang district earlier this April
Millions feared to fall back into poverty in Indonesia as virus shatters economy
Indonesia could be faced with a new wave of poverty as the coronavirus crisis is causing a...
Thailand only Southeast Asian country with rising poverty rate: World Bank
The number of people living in poverty in Thailand climbed considerably between 2015 and 2018 by almost...
Poverty rate drops in Indonesia
Indonesia's Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced on July 18 that the percentage of the Indonesian population living below the poverty line decreased by 2.11...
Inequality in Indonesia rose to record high
Inequality in Indonesia has reached historical high, a World Bank report released in Jakarta on December 8 revealed. The country's Gini coefficient, which measures...
Poverty rates in East Asia declining steadily
The World Bank in the latest of its half-yearly East Asia and Pacific Economic Update reports released in October documents a rapid decline in...
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ING next foreign bank to exit retail banking in the Philippines
Dutch financial services group ING Bank is exiting the retail banking market in the Philippines, just shortly after US banking giant Citi did the...